Forest Comprehensive School
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Forest Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Hawbush Road, Harden, Walsall
, West Midlands
, England
.
It was built during the 1950s to serve the council housing estates in the Blakenall Heath
, Harden, Goscote
and Coalpool
areas, which had gradually developed since 1920, and was originally known as W.R. Wheway School (with secondary modern status) until becoming Forest Comprehensive in September 1973.
It remained open until July 1992 when it closed due to falling pupil numbers.
The school buildings have been retained as the Hawbush Centre, which serves the local community for activities such as recreation and adult education. It is a welcome facility in one of the most deprived parts of Walsall.
Walsall
Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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It was built during the 1950s to serve the council housing estates in the Blakenall Heath
Blakenall Heath
Blakenall Heath is a neighbourhood in Walsall, West Midlands, England. It straddles the border of Walsall and neighbouring town Bloxwich.It was originally a rural area north of Walsall, but the face of the area changed dramatically between 1918 and 1939....
, Harden, Goscote
Goscote
Not to be confused with Goscote, WalsallGoscote was a wapentake of Leicestershire, England, consisting of the north and north-west of the county...
and Coalpool
Coalpool
Coal Pool is a housing estate in Walsall, West Midlands, England. Most of the homes in area were built by the local council during the 1930s, with a smaller development taking place in the late 1940s which marked the resumption of council house building in the borough after World War...
areas, which had gradually developed since 1920, and was originally known as W.R. Wheway School (with secondary modern status) until becoming Forest Comprehensive in September 1973.
It remained open until July 1992 when it closed due to falling pupil numbers.
The school buildings have been retained as the Hawbush Centre, which serves the local community for activities such as recreation and adult education. It is a welcome facility in one of the most deprived parts of Walsall.